Re: Re: spar/gear bracket


Subject:    Re: Re: spar/gear bracket
From:    Dave (corky@hbci.com)
Date:    Wed Mar 17 - 4:54 AM
Doug
I usually get into trouble when I start thinking, but
it make me wonder, it this caused from landings or from shimmy

Dave McCorquodale
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kayberg@aol.com 
  To: lightning-list@matronics.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:56 PM
  Subject: Re: Re: spar/gear bracket


  In a message dated 3/16/2010 10:44:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
corky@hbci.com writes:

    Guys
    Has anyone had a problem with the spar bracket--NO do you have 
Esquals, NO. 
    Do you think maybe this guy might have had some very bad landings? I 
guess 
    yes.
    This was meant for Buz because he has an Esqual, sorry I put it out 
for the 
    Lightning group, two different airplanes.
    Dave Mcc


  We replaced a spar box on an Esqual at Green Landings.   The gear had 
broken lose on both sides and was a disaster waiting to happen.  The 
small tubes had broken or cracked, the sockets were lose and floppy.  I 
believe it was the stainless steel box.    Not a good design.

  Yes, it could have been bad landings, but the gear did not bend.   
>From a design perspective, I think it is important that the gear bend 
and deform long before damaging the box and cabin structure.  Did  not 
happen that way in the Esqual.

  FWIW

  Doug Koenigsberg




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